GPH 492/692 - Applied Geophysics offered each Spring semester except NOT Spring 2014 (next offered Spring 2015) Prerequisite/Corequisite: Geol 332; 4 Credits Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 11:00-11:50 in LME 415 Lab section GPH 492/692-1101 is two hours per week in the DeLaMare Library downstairs computer lab Instructor: John Louie, 217 LME, 784-4219, louie@unr.edu Office Hours: announced soon

Assigned readings and composition of literature reviews will be an integral part of the course work. As a major capstone course for undergraduates, your work in this course will integrate all of the computational, critical thinking, writing, and geophysical skills you have gained during your Geological Sciences and Engineering degree program.

The course has 4 elements: lecture/discussions, lab exercises, reading case-history literature, and a field project.
The description below is available to WWW browsers at the URL http://crack.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/492-syll.html.

Team-Based Learning

Team-Based Learning takes place through a number of steps that we will execute on the first day of class, and then at each class meeting throughout the semester:

1. Students study assigned materials before class.
2. Instructor assigns each student to a team- at the start of the semester.
3. In class, knowledge of assigned materials is tested with quiz questions. For each question:
   1. First each student answers the question alone.
   2. Then each team discusses the question.
   3. All teams in the room show their answer simultaneously.
   4. The instructor asks teams to explain why they chose their answers.
   5. The instructor discusses the correct answer and receives any challenges on its correctness or the quality of the question.
4. The instructor gives a more difficult exercise to the teams, for group completion, simultaneous response, and class discussion. In this class, these will be the Lab sessions.
5. Occasionally during the semester, each student will write peer evaluations of each of their team members.

Lecture/Discussions

The instructor will score responses on the individual answer cards toward 10% of the total grade.

In advance of each lecture/discussion, please read the assigned parts of the text, and download and review the scanned overheads and other lecture materials. Lecture materials for the seismic sections during the first part of the class are linked here:

Downloadable lecture videos Seismic overheads 1, 1.7-Mb PDF Seismic overheads 2, 17.6-Mb PDF ReMi lecture slides, 8.4-Mb PDF ReMi slides in high-res, 25.6-Mb PDF

Seismic overheads 3, 11.5-Mb PDF (updated 2/14/13) Oppliger lecture notes in PDF, for Gravity, Magnetics, and Electrical Hydrogeophysics case histories, 692-kb PDF (created 4/23/13) Plots drawn during Lab 1 tutorial sessson, 601-kb ZIP Magnetics overheads, 997-kb PDF Borehole overheads, 1.0-Mb PDF

Download PDFs of powerpoint presentations from a hidden web site for the gravity, magnetics, GPS, and electromagnetics lectures later in the semester. The instructor will give you the location of the hidden web site in class. Bringing the textbook to class, as well as the notes and overheads on your laptop will save you printing costs and some trees.

The required text is W. Telford, L. Geldart, and R. Sheriff, Applied Geophysics, Cambridge Univ. Press, ISBN 0521339383 (Google Books link) -$89.22 from Amazon.com; also availble new from Barnes and Noble and used from both for a little less. Buying from the ASUN Bookstore for $111 ($90 rental) helps support student activities. This text and others are on class reserve in the DeLaMare Library. (Go to ARES at https://ares.library.unr.edu/ares, log on with your NetID, and search on ''GPH'' or ''Louie''.) The full text is available here to UNR users. The schedule of readings from the text are noted in the syllabus below.

There are on-line courses elsewhere that may also provide helpful materials:

• Introduction to Geophysical Exploration by Boyd at CSM
• Environmental Geophysics by Larry Brown at Cornell
• Geophysics: Abbreviated Course Notes by Dr. Susan Clark Slaymaker of California State University, Sacramento
• Geology and Geophysics Applied to Industry presentations and exercises by AAPG Visiting Geoscientist Fred Schroeder.

Team-Based Lab Exercises

For each of the six lab assignments, the class needs to meet during the agreed lab period for one or two 2-hour sessions. The instructor will take the teams through the lab exerises, and each team will turn in answers to the exercises. However, students do not need to turn in individual answers to any of the lab exercises. If a team cannot complete a lab during the lab sessions, email team questions about the labs to the gph492@lists.unr.edu mail alias, and the instructor or another student may be able to answer quickly.

Links to lab exercises:

1. First-arrival picking and velocity inversion lab
2. Surface-wave dispersion analysis and modeling lab
3. Reflection processing Lab
4. Gravity lab
5. Magnetics Lab
6. Resistivity modeling lab (old Resix lab)

Reading Case-History Literature

• Please refer to the handout on Pointers for writing good abstracts.

Field Project

Planning and mobilizing for each geophysical method will be assigned to a student team from the class. Everyone in the class must be willing to give up their entire spring break for the field project. The fieldwork may occupy all nine days of Spring Break, from 7 AM to 7 PM each field day. Additional details will be announced in February. There is a field project preparation web page from 2012 that will be updated with this class's objectives.

Each method's team will present their analysis with a 10-minute seminar during the final lecture period, in LME 415. While the class will collectively analyze the data obtained, students will be responsible for their own written reports. Each should describe the objectives, previous work, methods, results, and implications of the entire project in 5 to 10 pages of text, plus figures. For further guidance, see the page on elements of a professional report. The class may be able to publish its collected results; see some examples. There will be no final exam, unless the field project becomes a complete failure.

Special Projects Team

Grades will be calculated as follows:

You are encouraged to work with your classmates on all assignments except your abstracts. However, you must turn in your own work for it to count toward your grade, free of any academic dishonesty.

Accommodating Disabilities

Syllabus and Schedule

Recording of Class Sessions